The Kick Inside

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Kicking things off with a whimper, not a bang, Kate Bush quietly released her 1978 debut, The Kick Inside and that disc still to this day affects an incredible number people, Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan among them. There are so many elements that make this disc unique--Kate's soaring soprano, her warm piano playing--but the one thing that perhaps sticks out most is how different her sounds were from anything else circulating at that time. Ten years before "alternative" hit the forefront, this music was neither easy nor palatable, truly an alternative from the other styles out there. Among the more legendary tracks, search out "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" and her timeless classic "Wuthering Heights." --Denise Sheppard

Product Description
Out of print in the U.S., this is the debut album by the highly acclaimed British pop vocalist. Contains all 13 of the tracks from when EMI first released it for her in 1978, including the international smash 'Wuthering Heights' and the U.S. chart hit 'Man With The Child In His Eyes'. Also contains the original European cover art. The All-Music Guide gave 'The Kick Inside' four & a half stars (out of five possible). An EMI release.

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The Kick Inside

Average customer rating: The Best Record of All Times The USA Seriously Missed Out On This One Beauty's Potency More Than A New Discovery Clearly her best work

The Kick Inside Kate Bush Manufacturer: Capitol ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Never For Ever Lionheart The Dreaming Aerial Hounds of Love ASIN: B000006U44 Release Date: 1997-07-14

Tracks:

1. Moving
2. The Saxophone Song
3. Strange Phenomena
4. Kite
5. The Man With The Child In His Eyes
6. Wuthering Heights
7. James And The Cold Gun
8. Feel It
9. Oh To Be In Love
10. L'Amour Looks Something Like You
11. Them Heavy People
12. Room For The Life
13. The Kick Inside

Amazon.com

Kicking things off with a whimper, not a bang, Kate Bush quietly released her 1978 debut, The Kick Inside and that disc still to this day affects an incredible number people, Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan among them. There are so many elements that make this disc unique--Kate's soaring soprano, her warm piano playing--but the one thing that perhaps sticks out most is how different her sounds were from anything else circulating at that time. Ten years before "alternative" hit the forefront, this music was neither easy nor palatable, truly an alternative from the other styles out there. Among the more legendary tracks, search out "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" and her timeless classic "Wuthering Heights." --Denise Sheppard

Album Description

Out of print in the U.S., this is the debut album by the highly acclaimed British pop vocalist. Contains all 13 of the tracks from when EMI first released it for her in 1978, including the international smash 'Wuthering Heights' and the U.S. chart hit 'Man With The Child In His Eyes'. Also contains the original European cover art. The All-Music Guide gave 'The Kick Inside' four & a half stars (out of five possible). An EMI release.

Album Details

The Original Cover Art.

Customer Reviews:

The Best Record of All Times.......2007-03-09

I was 12 yers old when I first heard the music from The Kick Inside. It was one of my favorites. Since then I have had many favorites, but usually only for short time. Now I am over forty and The Kick Inside is still one of my favorites. This is absolutly the best record of all times.

The USA Seriously Missed Out On This One .......2007-02-13

Although Kate had a hit in the US with "The Man With A Child In His Eyes", this album went un-noticed upon its release in the late 70's in the states, while it blew up over-seas, making her a sensation in the UK.

Discovered and nurtured by Pink Floyd, you definitely get a kind of "trippy" influence with this album. Kate's vocals are unique and compliment the misty piano and sometimes dark orchestrations quite well. This definitely and album that is meant to be listened to straight through and each song is easy to appreciate.

The ultimate highlight is, of course, her signature song "Wuthering Heights." I definitely prefer this original version to the 1985 re-cut she did. Her girly, yearning vocals in the chorus are striking against the music *although it reaks of that 70's influence...just listen to that bass.* The opening track "Moving" is also incredible and the perfect opening...."You crush the lily in my soooooul..." You also have the sweet piano ballad "The Man With a Child In His Eyes" that introduced Kate to the states *just listen to that french horn!*. "Them Heavy People" sounds like something straight out of a quirky musical, but that isn't a bad thing. I want to dance every time I hear it. My other favorite has to be the title track which offers the perfect closing.

Don't just buy it for these songs I have highlighted, though. This is truly one of those rare albums where every track has something to offer and easily one of the top choices in my collection. If you are a fan of Tori Amos, check this out!

Beauty's Potency.......2007-01-08

"When I'm dead, I think I'll come haunt you as the sunset." ~Catherine in Wuthering Heights (1970)

Creatures from the ocean and forest are as comfortable dancing around Kate Bush's voice as the music that seems to spin a magic spell over the listener. As she sings "Oh to be in love, and never get out again..." you can feel her wistful longings.

I tried listening to this on my stereo and then another CD player and couldn't hear the lyrics as well as on my headphones. The clarity of her voice is exquisite on the K240 AKG headphones. They are worth buying to listen to this album.

Every word has a renewed clarity and the lyrics are wildly poetic and the way Kate sings gives me shivers. Her music has a highly creative appeal. This is the type of album you listen to with the lyrics in hand so you can experience every nuance and understand every element of the story. "Wuthering Heights" is especially beautiful:

"Out on the wiley, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper, like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me?
When I needed to possess you
I hated you. I loved you too..."

If you enjoy music by Tori Amos, Sarah Brightman or Bjork, I'm convinced this will impress you. Kate Bush has a breathlessly beautiful voice that can be as smooth as honey or as sharp as ice. The clarity in her voice is stunning and this is not just an album you can listen to casually, this is a soul experience.

~The Rebecca Review

More Than A New Discovery .......2006-12-10

I recently read that Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" was not initially inspired by the actual book but by a television mini-series based on same (not even the classic Laurence Olivier/Merle Oberon film apparently). My initial reaction was one of shock. I mean, Kate must have been all of 15 or 16 when she conceived of the song, but haven't all well-bred (and reasonably well-read) young English girls read the Bronte classic by then? And wasn't it just the height of presumption to pen a three minute musical adaptation of that narrative without having digested the actual book itself? Well, that's the librarian in me speaking, I guess. The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea that Kate's classic (some might say "signature" song) was based on a screenplay rather than its source novel.

First of all, Kate supposedly read the novel right after having composed the song, in order to verify that her "research" was right. So all is forgiven on that score. Secondly, it seems all the more emblematic of her teenage creative soul that she would take her inspiration where she found it--even if it's not necessarily through the accepted channels. And then, just the fact that she apparently admitted it without much reservation is charmingly candid.

And of course it is a great song--one of many on this, Kate Bush's astonishing debut album. And I am not one to use words like "astonishing" lightly. To think that this almost flawless, truly poetic and musically sophisticated record was the work of a 19 year old almost boggles the mind. And one considers that many of the tracks were actually written when Kate was an even younger teen, well, it's clear that we are dealing with a true prodigy.

In terms of her adolescent burst of creative energy, Kate Bush reminds me of no one so much as Laura Nyro. Like Nyro, her songs were both quirky and yet eminently listenable. They were,in fact, full of hooks. Both women simultaneously enjoyed "cult" status while proving to be "commercially viable," (Nyro, unfortunately, primarily in the role of a hit factory for OTHER artists--even though her own interpretations were invariabley superior; Bush enjoyed considerable popularity on her home turf, but had to wait years to achieve any prominence in the US). Despite wildly divergent influences (Laura being steeped in NYC Doo-Wop, R&B, Broadway, and--really just--a bit of folk; while Kate was rooted in an Anglo-Celtic folk tradition, melded with a particularly British brand of progressive rock), they were in so many ways, sisters under the skin. Kate Nyro? Laura Bush? (Strike that last.)

If you accept that premise, then you might also agree with me that Kate Bush's early work displays the same kind of "madcap energy" that Laura saw in her own early work. Her songs were wildly inventive, musically and lyrically. Her off-handed spirituality galled some critics, but others found her bandying about of names like Gurdjieff and Jesus in the context of a bouncy, spirited near novelty number ("Them Heavy People") completely winning. A similar spirit sends a song like "Kite" aloft. And keeps it there.

The slower tempoed tunes are equally captivating, many of them moody meditations on love and loss that should have been beyond her years (as, say, Nyro had been a decade or so before with tunes like "December's Boudoir'). One can allow a 19-year old her Romanticism, so when she sees herself "in a Berlin bar, in a corner brooding," the listener indulges her her fantasy. Everyone's entitled to what Joni Mitchell calls their "dark cafe days." And at least, the young Kate Bush spent her time there sincerely grooving to a genius player's saxophone. And the sax arrangement captures that sentiment beautifully.

And speaking of arrangements, KICK INSIDE does differ from any number of other promising debut albums in one significant regard: the production and arrangements are spot on. They complement Kate's material beautifully. Kate did not start producing her own material for another few years, but she either lucked out and had the most compatible producer and arrangers possible or she was already--at the age of 19--calling the shots behind the scenes.

Clearly her best work.......2006-09-01

Kate Bush attracts too many eccentics and over passionate fans. She is a true talent but some of material is too self indulgent. She is a "hit or miss" artist.

This cd, her debut, is her best. She was being mentored by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, she was young and the work is far more organic than the annoying wall of sound apparent from other works.

The album is great b/c of the intimacy of Kate's voice. It is haunting yet innocent, strong in power but at the same time quite delicate. She's no rock star but rather a beautiful voice conveying feelings.

"Wuthering Heights" is the best song. It is much better than the re-mix from her greatest hits cd. Other notable songs are "Them Heavy People" (she performed that on Saturday Night Live in the 1970's), "Moving" "Feel It" and "Saxophone Song".

You see, when she made this, she was a nobody and the work was sincere. As her celebrity status grew, the songs became more weird, less accessible.

I would love to hear Kate bush with just her voice and an accoustic guitar!

Average customer rating: The Best Record of All Times The USA Seriously Missed Out On This One Beauty's Potency More Than A New Discovery Clearly her best work

The Kick Inside Kate Bush Manufacturer: Indent Series ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Never For Ever Lionheart The Dreaming Aerial Hounds of Love ASIN: B000005JH5 Release Date: 1996-07-23

Tracks:

1. Moving
2. The Saxophone Song
3. Strange Phenomena
4. Kite
5. The Man With The Child In His Eyes
6. Wuthering Heights
7. James And The Cold Gun
8. Feel It
9. Oh To Be In Love
10. L'amour Looks Something Like You
11. Them Heavy People
12. Room For The Life
13. The Kick Inside

Amazon.com

Kicking things off with a whimper, not a bang, Kate Bush quietly released her 1978 debut, The Kick Inside and that disc still to this day affects an incredible number people, Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan among them. There are so many elements that make this disc unique--Kate's soaring soprano, her warm piano playing--but the one thing that perhaps sticks out most is how different her sounds were from anything else circulating at that time. Ten years before "alternative" hit the forefront, this music was neither easy nor palatable, truly an alternative from the other styles out there. Among the more legendary tracks, search out "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" and her timeless classic "Wuthering Heights." --Denise Sheppard

Album Description

Out of print in the U.S., this is the debut album by the highly acclaimed British pop vocalist. Contains all 13 of the tracks from when EMI first released it for her in 1978, including the international smash 'Wuthering Heights' and the U.S. chart hit 'Man With The Child In His Eyes'. Also contains the original European cover art. The All-Music Guide gave 'The Kick Inside' four & a half stars (out of five possible). An EMI release.

Album Details

The Original Cover Art.

Customer Reviews:

The Best Record of All Times.......2007-03-09

I was 12 yers old when I first heard the music from The Kick Inside. It was one of my favorites. Since then I have had many favorites, but usually only for short time. Now I am over forty and The Kick Inside is still one of my favorites. This is absolutly the best record of all times.

The USA Seriously Missed Out On This One .......2007-02-13

Although Kate had a hit in the US with "The Man With A Child In His Eyes", this album went un-noticed upon its release in the late 70's in the states, while it blew up over-seas, making her a sensation in the UK.

Discovered and nurtured by Pink Floyd, you definitely get a kind of "trippy" influence with this album. Kate's vocals are unique and compliment the misty piano and sometimes dark orchestrations quite well. This definitely and album that is meant to be listened to straight through and each song is easy to appreciate.

The ultimate highlight is, of course, her signature song "Wuthering Heights." I definitely prefer this original version to the 1985 re-cut she did. Her girly, yearning vocals in the chorus are striking against the music *although it reaks of that 70's influence...just listen to that bass.* The opening track "Moving" is also incredible and the perfect opening...."You crush the lily in my soooooul..." You also have the sweet piano ballad "The Man With a Child In His Eyes" that introduced Kate to the states *just listen to that french horn!*. "Them Heavy People" sounds like something straight out of a quirky musical, but that isn't a bad thing. I want to dance every time I hear it. My other favorite has to be the title track which offers the perfect closing.

Don't just buy it for these songs I have highlighted, though. This is truly one of those rare albums where every track has something to offer and easily one of the top choices in my collection. If you are a fan of Tori Amos, check this out!

Beauty's Potency.......2007-01-08

"When I'm dead, I think I'll come haunt you as the sunset." ~Catherine in Wuthering Heights (1970)

Creatures from the ocean and forest are as comfortable dancing around Kate Bush's voice as the music that seems to spin a magic spell over the listener. As she sings "Oh to be in love, and never get out again..." you can feel her wistful longings.

I tried listening to this on my stereo and then another CD player and couldn't hear the lyrics as well as on my headphones. The clarity of her voice is exquisite on the K240 AKG headphones. They are worth buying to listen to this album.

Every word has a renewed clarity and the lyrics are wildly poetic and the way Kate sings gives me shivers. Her music has a highly creative appeal. This is the type of album you listen to with the lyrics in hand so you can experience every nuance and understand every element of the story. "Wuthering Heights" is especially beautiful:

"Out on the wiley, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper, like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me?
When I needed to possess you
I hated you. I loved you too..."

If you enjoy music by Tori Amos, Sarah Brightman or Bjork, I'm convinced this will impress you. Kate Bush has a breathlessly beautiful voice that can be as smooth as honey or as sharp as ice. The clarity in her voice is stunning and this is not just an album you can listen to casually, this is a soul experience.

~The Rebecca Review

More Than A New Discovery .......2006-12-10

I recently read that Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" was not initially inspired by the actual book but by a television mini-series based on same (not even the classic Laurence Olivier/Merle Oberon film apparently). My initial reaction was one of shock. I mean, Kate must have been all of 15 or 16 when she conceived of the song, but haven't all well-bred (and reasonably well-read) young English girls read the Bronte classic by then? And wasn't it just the height of presumption to pen a three minute musical adaptation of that narrative without having digested the actual book itself? Well, that's the librarian in me speaking, I guess. The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea that Kate's classic (some might say "signature" song) was based on a screenplay rather than its source novel.

First of all, Kate supposedly read the novel right after having composed the song, in order to verify that her "research" was right. So all is forgiven on that score. Secondly, it seems all the more emblematic of her teenage creative soul that she would take her inspiration where she found it--even if it's not necessarily through the accepted channels. And then, just the fact that she apparently admitted it without much reservation is charmingly candid.

And of course it is a great song--one of many on this, Kate Bush's astonishing debut album. And I am not one to use words like "astonishing" lightly. To think that this almost flawless, truly poetic and musically sophisticated record was the work of a 19 year old almost boggles the mind. And one considers that many of the tracks were actually written when Kate was an even younger teen, well, it's clear that we are dealing with a true prodigy.

In terms of her adolescent burst of creative energy, Kate Bush reminds me of no one so much as Laura Nyro. Like Nyro, her songs were both quirky and yet eminently listenable. They were,in fact, full of hooks. Both women simultaneously enjoyed "cult" status while proving to be "commercially viable," (Nyro, unfortunately, primarily in the role of a hit factory for OTHER artists--even though her own interpretations were invariabley superior; Bush enjoyed considerable popularity on her home turf, but had to wait years to achieve any prominence in the US). Despite wildly divergent influences (Laura being steeped in NYC Doo-Wop, R&B, Broadway, and--really just--a bit of folk; while Kate was rooted in an Anglo-Celtic folk tradition, melded with a particularly British brand of progressive rock), they were in so many ways, sisters under the skin. Kate Nyro? Laura Bush? (Strike that last.)

If you accept that premise, then you might also agree with me that Kate Bush's early work displays the same kind of "madcap energy" that Laura saw in her own early work. Her songs were wildly inventive, musically and lyrically. Her off-handed spirituality galled some critics, but others found her bandying about of names like Gurdjieff and Jesus in the context of a bouncy, spirited near novelty number ("Them Heavy People") completely winning. A similar spirit sends a song like "Kite" aloft. And keeps it there.

The slower tempoed tunes are equally captivating, many of them moody meditations on love and loss that should have been beyond her years (as, say, Nyro had been a decade or so before with tunes like "December's Boudoir'). One can allow a 19-year old her Romanticism, so when she sees herself "in a Berlin bar, in a corner brooding," the listener indulges her her fantasy. Everyone's entitled to what Joni Mitchell calls their "dark cafe days." And at least, the young Kate Bush spent her time there sincerely grooving to a genius player's saxophone. And the sax arrangement captures that sentiment beautifully.

And speaking of arrangements, KICK INSIDE does differ from any number of other promising debut albums in one significant regard: the production and arrangements are spot on. They complement Kate's material beautifully. Kate did not start producing her own material for another few years, but she either lucked out and had the most compatible producer and arrangers possible or she was already--at the age of 19--calling the shots behind the scenes.

Clearly her best work.......2006-09-01

Kate Bush attracts too many eccentics and over passionate fans. She is a true talent but some of material is too self indulgent. She is a "hit or miss" artist.

This cd, her debut, is her best. She was being mentored by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, she was young and the work is far more organic than the annoying wall of sound apparent from other works.

The album is great b/c of the intimacy of Kate's voice. It is haunting yet innocent, strong in power but at the same time quite delicate. She's no rock star but rather a beautiful voice conveying feelings.

"Wuthering Heights" is the best song. It is much better than the re-mix from her greatest hits cd. Other notable songs are "Them Heavy People" (she performed that on Saturday Night Live in the 1970's), "Moving" "Feel It" and "Saxophone Song".

You see, when she made this, she was a nobody and the work was sincere. As her celebrity status grew, the songs became more weird, less accessible.

I would love to hear Kate bush with just her voice and an accoustic guitar!

Average customer rating: so good Birth of a legend The Empress of Music! The Greatest Album Ever? Good Debut, Great Cover Design, Not Remastered.

The Kick Inside Kate Bush Manufacturer: EMI ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Alternative Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Never for Ever Lionheart Never For Ever The Dreaming Lionheart ASIN: B000BDJ60Q Release Date: 2005-11-14

Tracks:

1. Moving
2. Saxophone Song
3. Strange Phenomena
4. Kite
5. Man with the Child in His Eyes
6. Wuthering Heights
7. James and the Cold Gun
8. Feel It
9. Oh to Be in Love
10. Amour Looks Something Like You
11. Them Heavy People
12. Room for the Life
13. Kick Inside

Album Description

Japanese pressing of Kate's 1978 album. Comes packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Toshiba. 2005.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

Customer Reviews:

so good.......2007-06-13

The best song on this album is 'Them Heavy People'. Not only do the songs rock, the lyrical content is A++.

Birth of a legend.......2007-04-17

If you need a thoroughly convincing evidence of Kate Bush's truly unique artistic genius - you couldn't do better than start here. It's been almost ten years since I first heard "Wuthering Heights" and became instantly fascinated by that voice. Until then I was absolutely ignorant of who Kate Bush was and why she's considered a "goddess" by so many devoted fans.
The album (recorded when Kate was only 19 years old) immediately starts off with a masterpiece - a beautiful "Moving" which is a classic pop song, except it sounds like nothing pop music has produced before and ever since. How did this girl come up with these peculiar slightly oriental yet endlessly fascinating melodic moves and idiosyncratic visionary lyrics? As any other Kate Bush's record "The Kick Inside" keeps that balance between unprecedented pop brilliance and revelation.
It's an instant classic which sounds as fresh today as it sounded 30 years ago.

The Empress of Music!.......2006-06-03

This album, released way back in 1978, is one of the best debuts ever. In my opinion, Kate only topped this album with The Dreaming and Hounds Of Love. This album includes some of her earliest compositions, some she wrote when still in her early teens. The Man With The Child In His Eyes is one of the most beautiful songs ever; Moving and the title track are way up with the best of the best as well, as far as I am concerned. It even includes some love songs (Oh To Be In Love, L'Amour Looks Something Like You), which are gorgeous. Her lyrical subjects matters are sometimes unexpected and of shock-value to some, but I think hers are so well crafted.... also, the instruments used on this album are unusual in some cases, but to great effect. I don't like every song on this album (Kite and Feel It don't do it for me), but the inclusion of the best pop song EVER makes up for that: Wuthering Heights. I have never heard anything better since. As for her voice: you either like it or you don't. And I love it.....

The Greatest Album Ever?.......2006-05-30

As time passes by inexorably and relentlessly, and I think of the many thousand of songs I've heard, changed in style and sophistication, I come back time and again to The Kick Inside. This album doesn't just stand the test of time - it makes time stand still. At once haunting (The Man With the Child in His Eyes) and feel-good (James and the Cold Gun)there quite simply is not a bad track on the album: in fact, every track is just so effortlessly exceptional. This album defines the term 'classic' - a 'must have' in your collection!

Good Debut, Great Cover Design, Not Remastered........2005-12-09

This is a very expensive version of a disc that you can get remastered for a better sound at a much cheaper price unless you really must have the mini-lp sleeve packaging. Admittedly, the album cover is a great work of art though but if you already have the unremastered version of this disc, you are better off getting the cheaper remastered version that's out there. Overall though, this is a good debut for the quirky but very talented female version of Bob Dylan; a modern-day poet disguised as a pop singer. Recommended.

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